How to Review Your Mistakes (Ep. 470)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
LSAT growth comes from thoroughly reviewing your mistakes. But what does a thorough review look like? Ben and Nathan describe their approach and explain why they don’t recommend keeping a wrong answer journal. The guys also compare law school to wizard school. They reject an impatient admissions strategy. And they consider potential risks associated with the military’s Funded Legal Education Program.
1:31 - Confusing Writing - In a new study, cognitive scientists at MIT explain why legalese is so difficult to understand.
9:13 - Improving in RC - An anonymous listener has been told that they won’t improve much in Reading Comprehension. Ben and Nathan tell Anonymous to ignore the haters.
14:18 - Review - Nathan and Ben advocate a deep review of every mistake. But keeping a wrong answer journal is likely a waste of time.
26:42 - Apply Now or Later? - Is it better to apply early with a subpar LSAT or to apply late with a great LSAT? Ben and Nathan ask: Why pick the lesser of two evils when you can avoid the evil entirely?
34:49 - Comparative RC Passages - The guys outline their approach to comparative passages in Reading Comprehension.
37:28 - JAG and FLEP - An LSAT Demon student warns listeners about potential risks associated with the military’s Funded Legal Education Program.
48:28 - Word of the Week - You can mollify your test anxiety by improving at the test.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | People are going to really hate me for this, but. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 470 of the Thinking El-Sat Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Nathan Fox, with me is... Hello and welcome to episode 470 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Nathan Fox. With me is Ben Olson. |
| 0:15.7 | We're the co-founders of Elsat Demon.com and the Elsat Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:19.9 | You can be Elsat Famous on both shows, share news and ask questions on our website, thinking |
| 0:25.6 | El-Sat.com. Go to El-Sat Demon forward, El-Sat Demon.com forward, |
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| 0:45.0 | If you're studying for the Elsat, |
| 0:46.4 | if you're listening to this podcast, |
| 0:48.1 | I can't imagine doing that without signing up |
| 0:50.6 | for a free account. |
| 0:51.8 | Can you, Ben? |
| 0:53.2 | No, that's the show. |
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| 1:10.3 | uh... doesn't look like there's anything really to worry about on the immediate agenda. |
| 1:14.5 | Don't sign up for the L-SAT until your practice test scores indicate you're ready to sign up for the L-SAT. |
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